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From the Cleveland Daily Banner…
Kaitlin Gebby reports: Bradley County Schools reported 102 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on its campuses on Friday in the first weekly report of the school year.
Local school systems have pledged to keep the community informed with weekly COVID-19 updates, with Bradley County Schools reporting on Fridays and Cleveland City Schools reporting on Mondays.
From the 102 cases reported, it was not specified how many were among students or teachers. The report also did not list how many people were quarantined as a result of exposure. Those who are fully vaccinated do not have to quarantine if they are not showing symptoms. However, the report did show that of the 102 cases, Lake Forest Middle School accounted for 30 of them, Bradley Central High School confirmed 19, and Walker Valley High School reported 13 cases.
The only campuses that did not report at least one case of COVID-19 in the last week were Hopewell Elementary School, GOAL Academy and the Bradley Virtual School.
The 102 cases contribute to 199 total cases among Bradley County residents ages 5 to 18, according to Friday’s report from the Tennessee Department of Health. As of Thursday, Cleveland City Schools announced it had 48 confirmed COVID-19 cases within its schools. TDH reports there have been 2,385 total cases among school-aged children in Bradley County since March 2020.
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Autumn Hughes reports: Nearly $300,000 is available in the upcoming round of HCI grants, but there is an additional step in this grant cycle in order to apply.
Meeting Thursday afternoon, the HCI Committee approved its proposed timeline for disbursing grants for the $285,591.23 available. Committee members also approved adding a grant application workshop meeting, so that applicants can learn more about the process and filling out the required documents.
There will be a grant applicant workshop meeting on September 2nd, with the deadline for grant letter of intent applications being on September 30th. Letters to applicants with either a request for information or denial of funding will arrive by October 12th. The full application deadline for proposals accepted by the committee will be October 29th.
Speaking about the available grant funding, HCI grant administrator Lorri Moultrie noted it’s significantly more than the $114,487.75 available for the 2019 grant cycle, and which will be the first in nearly two years.
An AMBER Alert for a missing Athens teenager has been canceled after she was found safe.
The TBI says 17-year-old Autumn Turner has been found in St. Augustine, Florida.
The TBI says she was found with 27-year-old Jacob Flournoy, who is now in custody.
Flournoy was wanted on charges of Kidnapping and Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor by the Athens Police Department.
At least 22 people were killed and 50 others remained missing on Sunday after catastrophic flash floods swept through Middle Tennessee, the authorities said.
Rob Edwards, the chief deputy of the Humphreys County Sheriff’s Office, confirmed the numbers of dead and missing on Sunday and said the authorities were doing house-to-house checks in the hardest-hit areas in Humphreys, a rural county of about 18,500, roughly 72 miles west of Nashville.
Among those killed were several children, including twin 7-month-olds, he said
In an interview on Sunday morning with the television station WKRN, Mayor Buddy Frazier of Waverly, Tenn., the seat of Humphreys County, said that assessments of the damage were continuing and that the number of homes lost was “staggering.”
McEwen, Tenn., which is also in Humphreys County, recorded 17 inches of rain on Saturday, which the National Weather Service said on Twitter would set a record for the most rainfall in a 24-hour span in Tennessee if preliminary estimates were confirmed. The previous record, set in Milan, Tenn., in 1982, was 13.6 inches.
On Saturday, Deputy Edwards said that the search for victims was being hampered by the widespread loss of power and cellphone service.
